‘Startup Crawl’ aims to get entrepreneurs up and running

To the hero go the (Internet) spoils

Phil Jaycox, a St. Louis technology entrepreneur, sports festive Viking headgear during Friday’s Startup Crawl in the KC Startup Village. Jaycox is living temporarily in the village’s Homes for Hackers house, a residential effort to help out-of-town entrepreneurs take advantage of Google Inc.’s new Internet network in Kansas City.

Leap2 LLC

The startup treasure map

Decorations on the tables at Red Nova Labs in Westwood, Kansas, showed the route of Kansas City’s first Startup Crawl Friday.

Red Nova Labs

Life of the networking party

Part of the Startup Crawl experience included networking while participants traveled to various spots on event shuttle buses. Pictured is Bobby Curiel, account manager at Red Nova Labs.

Red Nova Labs

Where it's at

This house, located in a geographic cluster of local startups called KC Startup Village, was one of the stops on Friday’s Startup Crawl. The house is the headquarters for Local Ruckus LLC, Leap2 LLC and other fledgling technology companies.

Leap2 LLC

Your space or mine

One of the Startup Crawl stops was OfficePort, a Kansas City co-working space.

Red Nova Labs

Come on in

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City opened its doors to the Startup Crawl.

Red Nova Labs

Some strings of inspiration

Live music greeted roughly 300 people who visited the KC Startup Village Friday as part of the first Startup Crawl in Kansas City. Pictured is Adam Braunschweig, who plays guitar for From the Woods.